Opening Session.
Dr. Sergio Bustos, the SRSHES Chair, called the meeting to order at 8:53
a.m. and welcomed the attendees to the proceedings. He announced that two
presentations scheduled on the agenda would not be made: the health
consultation on potential tritium exposures at SRS and the overview of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) Charter. During this time, the floor
would be opened for the members to deliberate on activities by the SRSHES
workgroups.
Mr. Phillip Green, the SRSHES Designated Federal Official (DFO), added
that Dr. Mark Evans, of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR), offered to make the tritium presentation at a future meeting. In
the meantime, however, a copy of Dr. Evans’ slides was included in the
pre-meeting briefing books.
Review of Meeting Minutes.
Dr. Bustos entertained a motion to approve the previous meeting minutes. In
an April 15, 2002 memorandum to Dr. Bustos and Mr. Green, Dr. Crawford
provided comments on the document. Dr. Umansky moved to accept the minutes
with Dr. Crawford’s memorandum as an attachment; Mr. Waters seconded the
motion. There being no further discussion, the January 10-11, 2002 Draft
SRSHES Meeting Minutes were unanimously approved, attaching the amendment as
noted in the record.
Review of Current Action Items.
Mr. Green’s status report of the current action items is outlined below:
- A legible copy of ATSDR’s slide illustrating kidney function was
mailed to the SRSHES members in February or March 2002.
- Information on the history of national notifiable disease reporting in
the United States and the process states use to identify and voluntarily
report notifiable diseases to CDC was included in the pre-meeting briefing
books.
- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) default values would be
discussed during a presentation by Dr. Robert Whitcomb of the National
Center for Environmental Health (NCEH).
- U.S. Census data on populations in all Georgia and South Carolina
counties from 1910-1990; gross demographics for both states; and a map
illustrating population changes in selected Georgia and South Carolina
counties were included in the pre-meeting briefing books or distributed
during the meeting. Dr. Janet Heitgerd of ATSDR has expertise in
Geographic Information Systems and offered to present more detailed
information on Georgia and South Carolina demographics at a future SRSHES
meeting.
- A discussion of the membership, mission, purpose and expectations of
the SRSHES workgroups was scheduled on the agenda. Reports would also be
made on the following outstanding assignments:
- The Outreach Workgroup to finalize the SRSHES brochure.
- The Epidemiologic Data Workgroup to identify additional data
sources.
- The Agenda Workgroup to identify agenda items that were previously
recommended.
- The Community Summary Workgroup to present the final Phase II
summary and call for an SRSHES vote on the document.
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